It is an affair worthy of the best detective stories: from 1948 to 1953, a traffic initiated by a handful of colonialists generated hundreds of billions of francs and shattered the Fourth Republic. And yet who remembers the piastres affair...See moreIt is an affair worthy of the best detective stories: from 1948 to 1953, a traffic initiated by a handful of colonialists generated hundreds of billions of francs and shattered the Fourth Republic. And yet who remembers the piastres affair? Who can imagine the magnitude of a scandal far more resounding than Clearstream? By reopening the investigation into a financial machine that was as omnipotent as it was sprawling, this film sheds new light on the Indochina War.
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